New release candidate: ansible-core 2.16.4rc1

[Matt Martz]

Hi all- we're happy to announce the following release candidate:

ansible-core 2.16.4rc1


How to get it
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$ python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core==2.16.4rc1

The release artifacts can be found here:

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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/56/57/ed9c0db18579a25816c756432c5c275d6fd69e4d3b70644fd1ae8e426e47/ansible_core-2.16.4rc1-py3-none-any.whl
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https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/72/55/7a451bf0800a6631b4ec6fc95ca44573aaf222e7c7dc1bafae7f7fc5ad31/ansible-core-2.16.4rc1.tar.gz


What's new
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This release is a maintenance release containing numerous bugfixes.

The full changelog can be found here:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.4rc1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.16.rst


Schedule for future releases
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The release candidate will become a general availability release on 26 February 2024.


Porting help
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If you discover any errors or if any of your working playbooks break when you upgrade, please use the following link to report the regression:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/new/choose

In your issue, be sure to mention the version that works and the one that doesn't.

Thanks!